[Scan-DC] Why Fort Ritchie? Russian state TV shows strike targets in Maryland

[Albert LaFrance]

Thank goodness they haven't found out about The Greenbrier 😊


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Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] Why Fort Ritchie? Russian state TV shows strike targets in Maryland

Maybe, closing it was all a fake story and it really remains a secret military installation that they don't want us to know about.

On Sun, Mar 3, 2019 at 1:07 PM Alan Henney <alan at henney.com> wrote:

> Why Fort Ritchie? Russian state TV shows strike targets in Maryland
>
>
> https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/investigations/bs-bz-maryla
> nd-targets-russia-20190226-story.html#nws=true
>
>
> #Russia's state TV:
> Host Dmitry Kiselyov boasts that Tsirkon hypersonic cruise missile 
> "won't allow Americans to sit it out across the ocean," names potential targets:
> ▪️Pentagon
> ▪️Camp David
> ▪️Fort Ritchie (Maryland)
> ▪️McClellan (California)
> ▪️Jim Creek (Washington State)
>
>
> Why Fort Ritchie? Russian state TV shows strike targets in Maryland
>
> Maryland doesn’t stand much of a chance should the United States and 
> Russia come to nuclear blows.
>
> It’s not only next to Washington, but also home to Fort Meade and the 
> National Security Agency, Aberdeen Proving Ground and the Camp David 
> presidential retreat.
>
> Camp David, nestled in the Catoctin Mountains near Thurmont, was among 
> five targets listed on Russian state television for that nation’s 
> hypersonic missile capable of delivering a nuclear warhead within five minutes.
>
> View image on Twitter
>
> https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/1099747323750608897
>
> The bellicose threat by Dmitry Kiselyov, host of Russia’s main weekly 
> TV news show “Vesti Nedeli,” came after Russian President Vladimir 
> Putin warned the U.S. not to deploy new missiles to Europe.
>
> Other targets included the Pentagon, the Jim Creek Naval Radio Station 
> in Washington State, McClellan Air Force Base outside Sacramento, 
> Calif., and Fort Ritchie, a few miles northwest of Camp David.
>
> Camp David, the Pentagon and Jim Creek, a powerful radio station that 
> broadcasts to ships and submarines around the world, make sense, but 
> those last two are peculiar. Both McClellan and Fort Ritchie were 
> closed in the 1990s.
>
> Since 1997, state and local officials have struggled to find new uses 
> for Fort Ritchie, which sprawls across 600 acres in Washington County 
> with old stone buildings, spruce trees and two lakes.
>
> Recently, a South Korean developer backed out of plans to buy most of 
> the base for $6 million, according to the Herald-Mail in Hagerstown.
>
> Perhaps, the developer heard about Russia’s targeting.
>
> While Fort Ritchie may be fallow ground, it is just a handful of miles 
> from Raven Rock Mountain Complex, a nuclear bunker across the border 
> in southern Pennsylvania considered by some an “underground Pentagon.” 
> Some believe that Raven Rock was the “secure undisclosed location” 
> used by Vice President Dick Cheney in the aftermath on the 9/11 attacks.
>
> So Russia, what do you have against Fort Ritchie?
>
> cdinsmore at baltsun.com
>
> twitter.com/CKDinsmore
>
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